Yeah, I've heard this over the years. Yet, I've never had a problem in 10-12 years of doing it -- at least with 3.5" floppies. Just lucky, I guess. Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. Columbia, Maryland, USA http://gerenm.net/ -----Original Message----- From: hans-artmann@... [mailto:hans-artmann@...] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:55 PM To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] floppies Although this solution seems to work there is some risk you should know about: HD floppies have a different surface and are designed to be written with a lower magnetic field to achieve the higher density without the tracks interfering each other. As a result, treating them HD as DD floppies will cause drop outs and errors. In other words: they don't like this cheating and will probably let you down after a while if not instantly. If you just want to use an HD floppy for a single transfer of data you might be lucky. If you want to archive sounds and sequences you should better find some real DD floppies unless you don't worry about loosing your data. Hans -----Original Message----- From: Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. [mailto:gerenm@...] Sent: Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2004 15:09 To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] floppies If you put a piece of tape over the HD sense hole, the computer, and hence the Giebler programs won't know it's an HD disk, and it will work just fine. Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. Columbia, Maryland, USA http://gerenm.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Frank Crawford [mailto:fmc@...] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:05 AM To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] floppies Potential problem with HD disks......if you use the Giebler program on a computer, it wont work w/HD FMC > From: Ralph Stokes <keysralph@...> > Reply-To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:33:11 +0000 > To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] floppies > > I use HD Disks > :-) > > Rick Margitza wrote: > >> Does anybody out there know where to get double density floppy discs. Mine >> are all full and need space to store the stuff I'm working on....or will Hd >> density discs work? >> Thanks, Rick >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ensoniq-VFX-SD/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] floppies
2004-01-29 by Geren W. Mortensen, Jr.